Under description below, WMMS = Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, London.<BR>Because missionaries received a 'children's allowance', the names and birth dates of missionaries' children were recorded each year.

The records are in a series numbered 'E', as follows:<P>Reel 1:<BR> E100 - Accounts with WMMS, 1822-49<BR>E101 - Accounts with WMMS and Tonga District, 1837-52, 1841-45, 1847-64<BR>E102 - Balance sheets, etc., Ha'apai circuit accounts, 1850-72<BR>E103 - Accounts with district chairman, etc. 1871-95<BR>E104 - As above, 1872-81<BR><P>Reel 2:<BR>E105 - Ledger 1889-94<BR>E106 - Ledger, 1895 - 1901<BR>E107 - Ledger, 1901-08; balance sheets, 1901-08<BR><P>Reel 3:<BR>E107 - Above continued<BR>E108 - Journal 1903-06<BR><P>NOTE: Volumes and files numbered E109-132, containing mainly invoices and receipts, were not microfilmed.

Annual list of ministers, compiled 1924 - 1972 for the period 1888 - 1971<BR>Terms of appointment for ministers who have served in Tonga, 1822 - 1906

The Minutes, in Tongan, are contained on two reels as follows:<BR>Reel 1: 1950 - 71<BR>Reel 2: 1972 - 79

The registers cover the periods 1835 - 1884 and 1888 - 1922.

The registers, numbered F203, cover the periods 1830-33, 1850-54 and 1859-1923. Duplicate registers precede the original for the period 1884-1923.

The registers are numbered and cover the following periods:<BR>F202 - 1840-71<BR>F204 - 1872-82 (each entry is across two facing pages)<BR>F205 - 1883-97<BR>F206 - 1892-1921<BR>F205 - 1923<BR>F207 - 1924-25<BR>F208 - 1910-24<BR>F205 - 1925-72 (pp. 242-64 spoiled in filming)

The register is numbered F209. For earlier registers see PMB 987.

Niuafo'ou is one of the northern outliers of Tonga. In 1946, a volcanic eruption on the island prompted the Tonga Government to evacuate the entire population to Tongatapu. In 1949, about half were settled on neighbouring 'Eua. In 1958, the rest of the population returned to Niuafo'ou.

The register is numbered F210.

Samuel Greatheed (d.1823) was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. This work, written under the pen-name Nausistratus, was published as a series of articles in the Sailor's Magazine and Naval Miscellany, London, 1820-21, Vol.1, p. 402-6 and 449-56, and Vol.2, p. 1-8. It deals with the Bounty mutiny and its aftermath.

The work is based on printed sources, the then-unpublished journal of James Morrison of the Bounty, and verbal communications from an officer of HMS Pandora, which was sent to the Pacific to find and arrest the Bounty mutineers. It includes a number of details not published elsewhere. For a brief account of Greatheed's interest in Bounty matters, see Rolf Du Rietz's Note sur l'Histoire des Manuscrits de James Morrison in Journal de James Morrison, Paris, 1966.